Wednesday, January 6, 2010

First Sleepover

So Brent and I did it. We let Eli spend his first night away from home on New Year's Eve. We were going back and forth on it, but then realized it had been 3 months since we had a date night. So we let Mimaw and Papaw (Brent's parents) have the honor of his first night away. I was more concerned for them than Eli. If you have read my previous post, Eli one day decided sleep is overrated and still maintains the same attitude.

So we dropped him off at 6:00pm for us to enjoy some adult time. We went to eat and then a friend's house. Even though we were without children the topic dominated our conversations - dirty diapers, steaming vegetables, sitting up, spitting up, shots, etc.

At 9:45pm we got the phone call - Eli's upset. In Terri's words "Baby Chernobyl meltdown 30 minutes before bed". Thankfully it was nothing a bottle couldn't solve and then he slept until 5:30am.
Thanks for letting us have a night out!









Happy New Year!

4 comments:

  1. Yes Eli, thank you for letting your parents have a night out!!! We had a great time!

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  2. Congrats!!! I'm pretty sure Coop didn't have his first sleep over until he was about a year. Homeboy didn't sleep through the night for 11 months!!! Talk about sleep being overrated....Cooper is with Eli on that one! But weren't you running out the door to go get him the next morning? 12 hours for me felt like 12 days!!! = )

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  3. Maybe we should give it a try before we go cold turkey for nine days...i think i am tearing up just thinking about it! I will have a good time on our trip...I will have a good time on our trip...(my own little pep talk)!

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  4. We had a wonderful New Years Eve with our grandson. He was a good boy and we will do it again anytime. There's nothing better than to see a baby wake up in the morning. Great way to start the New Year. Mimaw Fisher

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